ABC has picked up a ’70s-set TV series inspired by the biography of Eileen Ford, the iconic founder of Ford Models. Model Woman is optioned from Robert Lacey’s book Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty. This fictional version focuses on a modeling agency head named Bertie Geiss.

Baby boomers get a lot of flack for glorifying the golden days of the 1960s through television, from programs like Mad Men to CNN’s The Sixties. But as recent pilot pick-ups suggest, their children have been indoctrinated into this obsession as well: A wealth of shows have come up in recent years fixated not on just…